Sci-Fi With Soul - The Island

Rating: 8/10 (9 December 2018)

See Michael, you can make a film without robots. I am not a big fan of Michael Bay (except for his very first robot film). But I glad to say, like the robots that evolved in this film, Michael Bay has evolved into a better director. He was already a master of action sequences, and special effects, and now he has added mastery of magnificent sets and depth to his characters; features missing from his previous efforts. I give him credit for improving his directorial skills. Most directors never improve; they just keep going back to the same formula some successful film that might have made money for them in the past. The story is a combination of Hunger Games and Logan's Run (an interesting hybrid), plus the current development of realistic robots. Although these humans are really just fresh body parts for the rich, they are just young children emotionally. They are not really robots. The story has a tragic element, too. It is the deception of innocence that the viewer finds the most monstrous about this type of film. There is seldom a more heinous scientific component to a film than the deception of thousands of innocent people. A job well done, Michael.